Peer Group Networks and Adolescent Smoking

同侪群体网络和青少年吸烟

• 批准号: 7414523
• 负责人: CASSANDRA A STANTON
• 金额: $ 13.12万
• 依托单位: BUTLER HOSPITAL (PROVIDENCE, RI)
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7414523
• 关键词: Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; American; Area; Behavior; Caucasians; Caucasoid Race; Child; Data; Data Collection; Development; Development Plans; Effect Modifiers (Epidemiology); Ethnic Origin; Etiology; Friends; Friendships; Future; Gender; Goals; Health; Health Promotion; Health behavior; Home environment; Individual; Influentials; Intervention; Knowledge; Latino; Learning; Link; Literature; Longitudinal Studies; Measures; Methodology; Parenting behavior; Parents; Pathway Analysis; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Peer Group; Play; Population Sciences; Positioning Attribute; Predisposition; Prevention Research; Prevention intervention; Process; Prohibit; Race; Relative (related person); Reporting; Research; Research Design; Risk; Role; Sample Size; Sampling; Schools; Smoke; Smoking; Social Environment; Social Network; Socialization; Staging; System; Testing; Time; Tobacco use; Training; Translating; Youth; adolescent smoking; anti-smoking; base; boys; cancer prevention; career; cigarette smoking; contextual factors; design; family influence; girls; innovation; non-smoking; novel; peer; prevent; programs; research study; skills; social; tobacco exposure; uptake

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This K07 proposal in cancer prevention, control, and population sciences will enable the applicant to build on our existing knowledge of individual-level pathways and trajectories of tobacco use by examining contextual factors and group level processes to yield more comprehensive understandings of the etiology of tobacco use. Peer groups play a critical role in the initiation and progression of adolescent smoking. Most studies of youth smoking have used the individual as the unit of analysis and peer smoking has been measured by adolescent report of their friends' smoking. The conceptual framework and methodology of social network analysis utilizes peer-nomination data to construct friendship links that allow patterns of relationships among individuals to be determined and interpreted within the context of the larger social environment. This methodology has been underutilized as a mechanism for understanding the development of health behaviors in youth and few studies exist that have used the peer group as the unit of analysis to understand social influences and youth tobacco use. The research design comprises two studies, each aimed at understanding the social context in which peer group membership is related to youth smoking. Study 1 will use existing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine whether influence on smoking occurs within the context of adolescent peer groups across two time points. Potential moderator variables such as gender, ethnicity, and parental variables will be examined. Study 2 will involve two years of novel data collection that will focus on vulnerabilities to prosmoking socialization influences in a sample of pre-adolescents in one social network system of an ethnically diverse urban middle school. The goals of the career development plan are to broaden conceptual and analytic knowledge of social network analysis as it can be applied to peer group formation and stages of cigarette smoking in youth and to develop innovative methodologies to bridge the analysis of individual and group level data. This training plan is intended to provide mastery of skills in group level analyses and promising new methodology that will enable the applicant to develop an independent program of cancer prevention research. The long-term objectives are to translate knowledge derived from studies of contextual influences on the etiology of tobacco use into culturally sensitive, developmentally appropriate, and novel prevention interventions that reinforce protective influences in youth's social environments.

描述（由申请人提供）：癌症预防，控制和人口科学的K07提案将使申请人能够通过检查背景因素和群体水平的过程来建立我们对烟草使用的个人水平途径和轨迹的现有知识，以更全面地了解烟草使用的病因学。 同伴群体在青少年吸烟的开始和发展中起着至关重要的作用。 大多数关于青少年吸烟的研究都是以个人为分析单位，通过青少年报告他们的朋友吸烟来衡量同伴吸烟。 社会网络分析的概念框架和方法利用同伴提名数据来构建友谊链接，从而在更大的社会环境背景下确定和解释个体之间的关系模式。 这种方法一直没有得到充分利用，作为一种机制，了解青年健康行为的发展，很少有研究存在，使用同龄人群体作为分析单位，了解社会影响和青年烟草使用。 研究设计包括两项研究，每项研究的目的是了解同龄人群体成员与青年吸烟有关的社会背景。 研究1将使用国家青少年健康纵向研究的现有数据，研究在两个时间点的青少年同龄人群体中是否会发生吸烟的影响。 将检查潜在的调节变量，如性别、种族和父母变量。 研究2将涉及两年的新的数据收集，将集中在一个种族多元化的城市中学的社会网络系统的一个样本的青少年前吸烟社会化的影响的脆弱性。 职业发展计划的目标是拓宽社会网络分析的概念和分析知识，因为它可以应用于同龄人群体的形成和青年吸烟阶段，并开发创新的方法来连接个人和群体层面的数据分析。 该培训计划旨在掌握小组水平分析的技能和有前途的新方法，使申请人能够开发独立的癌症预防研究计划。 长期目标是将从对烟草使用病因学的背景影响研究中获得的知识转化为文化敏感、适合发展和新颖的预防干预措施，以加强青年社会环境中的保护性影响。